Library 2.0 & Web 2.0 Overview

Home Pages & RSS 

Customized home/start page services

• Google http://www.google.com/ig
• Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/
• Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com
• My Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com 

RSS Feed Aggregators

• Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com
• Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/

How does Google Reader work?

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Some examples of customized 'startpages' (aka: pagecasts)

• Election 2008 Pagecast - A Pageflakes page with newsfeeds about the 2008 Presidential election.
• Darfur  - A pageflakes page created by Will Richardson. He talks about uses of these types of pages on his blog.

Examples: libraries republishing RSS feeds from other sources

• Homer Township Public Library  -- news feed
• Summer Reading NYS  -- del.icio.us feed of summer reading links
• School Library System Director Blog -- other blog headlines included on sidebar
• Sample Subject Guide Page for Biology  -- rss feed from ebsco and other sources

Content that libraries are providing through RSS

• Book listings, news & more - Casterville (OH) Public Library
• Blogs & RSS - Cold Spring School Library
• Book reviews by genre - Readers' Club, Charlotte Mecklenberg
• New book listings - U of Oklahoma
• Journal TOC from publisher - Age & Ageing
• List of journals from Saskatchewan
• Library Events - NYPL
• Library Catalog searches - Hennepin (do a subject or author search)
• Web site updates - CRBSLS
• Tufts - Research alerts
• New York Public Library uses feeds for event notices, new Internet sources and more 

More RSS Resources

• RSS in Plain English - Terrific, short video explaining how RSS works. 
• Using Bloglines (a tutorial)

Search Tools - Search for RSS, Feeds, Blog postings

• Technorati - Covers many topics

• Google Blog Search - Covers many topics.

• LisZen - Search over 700 library related blogs.

• LibWorm - Search library related blogs, podcasts and other RSS feeds. Browse by some major topic areas as well. 

Create your own RSS feed

• ListGarden
• FeedSpring
• RSS Headliner

What does RSS code really look like? aka: "the scary page"

•  RSS feed in xml code: http://www.pafa.net/20/xml.gif